Saturday, April 11, 2009

Scientists Confirm Large Quantities of Thermite in World Trade Center Dust...

The below paper, published in a peer-reviewed chemical physics journaland authored by nine scientists working in laboratories at multipleuniversities using state-of-the-art equipment, confirms the presenceof large quantities of metal microspheres of reacted thermite, andflakes (chips) of unreacted (i.e., still active) super-thermite (alsocalled nano-thermite, which is thermite which has been made even morereactive by decreasing the thermitic particle size down to thenanometer range), in different dust samples from the collapsed WorldTrade Center (W.T.C.) towers collected from multiple people atdifferent sites even before cleanup operations began. The physical andchemical properties of these microspheres and flakes were analyzedusing optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (S.E.M.), X-rayenergy dispersive spectroscopy (X.E.D.S.), and differential scanningcalorimetry (D.S.C.), among other methods....

For more information on the background on this paper, including theextensive research that went into it and the rigorous peer-reviewprocess that it underwent, I highly recommend everyone here listen tothe below interview of Dr. Steven E. Jones, one of the paper'sauthors. Also available below is an interview of Kevin R. Ryan,another author of the paper.

In addition to the presence of large amounts of thermite in the dustof the collapsed W.T.C. buildings, another truly vital piece ofevidence that provides definitive proof that the W.T.C. towers werebrought down by controlled demolition are the videos of yellow-hotmolten metal seen cascading off the South Tower (World Trade CenterTower 2).

That piece of evidence isn't merely a smoking gun: it's a smokingnuclear cannon. Those videos, alone and by themselves, areirrefragable proof that the South Tower (at the very least) hadthermite-like ("like" in the sense of producing comparabletemperatures) incendiary demolition charges with the ability to easilyslice through structural steel going off within it. There is noinnocent explanation for what those videos record.

That is to say, the only way to get around that it is thermite whichis causing that yellow-hot metal to cascade off the South Tower beforeits collapse would be to posit that we are seeing a different form ofextremely powerful incendiary with thermite-like temperatures at workin the videos. Of which, even if true, would be every bit as muchdamning, since no such powerful incendiaries can be accounted forwithout involving a sinister intent to plant them there.

From the color of the yellow-hot molten metal seen cascading off theSouth Tower, it had to be at least over 1000 °C (as the temperature ofan incandescent object is exhibited by its color), yet jet fuel burnsin open air at 260-315 °C; nor do burning office, building, or planematerials impart temperatures anywhere near that hot to structuralmembers (indeed, it would present quite a hazard if such articles wereconstructed with such powerful incendiaries, and so designers of suchobjects go out of their way to make sure that they are not). Thus, ifit wasn't molten iron from thermite that we are seeing come off theSouth Tower, then by necessity a reaction source with a heat intensityvery much like thermite had to be present. Yet there is nothing in theU.S. government's account that can explain such a heat source; indeed,there's nothing innocent that could explain it, since it requires somesort of extremely powerful incendiary.

For more on this, see the below paper by Steven E. Jones (Ph.D.;physicist and archaeometrist; former professor in the Department ofPhysics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University):

Moreover, even the official FEMA scientists Jonathan Barnett, RonaldR. Biederman, and R. D. Sisson, Jr. bolster the evidence that thermate(i.e., thermite with sulfur added, which causes it to slice throughsteel even faster by forming a eutectic alloy with it) was used tobring down the W.T.C. towers (see "Appendix C: Limited MetallurgicalExamination" in World Trade Center Building Performance Study: DataCollection, Preliminary Observations, and Recommendations, FederalEmergency Management Agency, FEMA 403, May 2002http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/fema403_apc.pdf ):

""Evidence of a severe high temperature corrosion attack on the steel,including oxidation and sulfidation with subsequent inter granularmelting, was readily visible in the near-surface microstructure. ...No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified.The rate of corrosion is also unknown.""

And in the below paper it is conclusively proved via chemical analysisusing scanning electron microscopy (S.E.M.), X-ray energy dispersivespectroscopy (X-E.D.S.), and wavelength dispersive X-ray spectroscopy(W.D.S.), that large quantities of thermite analogs (such as thermate)were used in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers:

Further, the below paper documents the connections between the peopleat the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)responsible for investigating the collapse of the W.T.C. buildings andthe rarefied military-intensive field of super-thermites. The glaringimplication being that those responsible for executing the technicalaspects of the controlled demolition of the W.T.C. (on behalf of thosewho control the U.S. government) are the same people in charge ofinvestigating the cause of the collapses. Thereby killing two birdswith one stone: using the same technical-echelon team which collapsedthe towers to subsequently collapse any authentic investigation intowhat caused the collapse of the towers--as these people aren't goingto tell on themselves. (To date NIST has refused to examine theremains of the W.T.C. for evidence of explosives or thermite, despiterepeated requests for such an examination and despite such analysisbeing specified in NFPA 921, "Guide for Fire and ExplosionInvestigations," National Fire Protection Association.)